Tag: Dayspring College

Liedecker: Life and Times #3

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This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series L:L&T 01: The Son

February 2044

Rain was coming down in sheets that made everything further out than a few feet run together into vague, looming blobs. It collected on the brick walks of the Dayspring campus and gathered into fast moving runnels wherever a slope led downhill even in the slightest.

From the porch of Hathaway House, the world was an ice blue moving curtain with only the hedges planted along the railing visible beyond the rain eschewing protection of the roof. The rain was coming straight down, barely spattering through the three open walls.

Two dark shapes suddenly loomed out of the obscuring rain and in a few steps resolved into young men carrying umbrellas. They surged over the threshold between the deluge and the dry haven and stood a moment shaking themselves and their umbrellas dry.

Vincent Liedecker glared out at the downpour as if he resented it for daring to get him wet. “You know another reason I’m gonna be glad to tour the Mid-East?” He asked rhetorically, “It’s dry.”

“You’ll miss this water when you get over there.” Callahan scowled, “All the water they got, it’s all being tilled into the ground. My Ecology professor’s one of the guys … Continue reading

Liedecker: Life and Times #1

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This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series L:L&T 01: The Son

September 2043

John C. Liedecker wasn’t one of the founders of Dayspring College. The place had been a small friendly four year college that fit its name and not much up for twenty years before John Liedecker moved from Memphis to Mayfield to be near his holdings.

It was Liedecker, however, that jumpstarted the tidal wave of funding that made Dayspring into a large, serious college with nationally competitive programs and transformed Mayfield from a town with a college to a college town.

A favorite anecdote was that Liedecker’s first donation, the one that paid for the construction and furnishing of the D. Hong Center for Robotics in full, was made on the same day his first child was born.

Another favorite was that despite donating an average of a residence building a year, not a single building on campus was named for him because he didn’t stand on such things.

Both were true. What it boiled down to was that when John Liedecker talked about investing in his children’s future, he meant it in the most literal sense. The only favor he received for his generosity was a significant reduction in cost when his first born decided to attend … Continue reading

Issue #30: Strange Times At Dayspring College

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This entry is part 6 of 14 in the series The Descendants Vol 3: A Bright, Bright Summer

Tammy is in town to visit her little brother, but this moment of family togetherness couldn’t have come at a worse time! Dayspring College is under attack by ghosts and it’s up to the Descendants and the Irrepressible Spark to figure out why before someone gets hurt! Part one of the 4 arc.

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Issue #24: Love Like Mad

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This entry is part 14 of 15 in the series The Descendants Vol 2: Magic and Machines

When Alexis turns down the advances of a researcher at the museum Warrick and Jun have summer jobs, little does she know that he’s about to undergo some changes thanks to an otherworldly artifact! High on power and short on sanity, can the Descendants face a godlike power if they plan to stop Madrigal Madigan from acting on his infatuation.

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